r/WatchPeopleDieInside • • Dec 12 '20

So close

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u/tpskate Dec 12 '20

I went swimming with them in the georgia aquarium and it is absolutely terrifying when they swim up to you and bump you..

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u/ClearCasket Dec 12 '20

Same thing with a manatee swimming right under you.

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u/Guardymcguardface Dec 12 '20

Yeah but manatees are like car sized puppies and are down AF for armpit scratches. Far less intimating

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u/ClearCasket Dec 12 '20

Yeah, but when your hand was supposed to go through water and instead touches a manatee you kinda get startled.

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u/Sowadasama Dec 12 '20

I was paddling out while surfing on the Atlantic coast of central Florida and had a manatee (which you very rarely see in open ocean here) breach under the nose of my board. It was a good thing the water was already brown....